"Kurdistan" Embraced by Islam

Kurds, who are they? The prehistory of the Kurds does not exist. Their ethnic
origin is poorly known. Since the emergence of the name “Kurd” from ambiguity,
the Kurds have been known as nomadic tribes of the mountainous region extending
from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the
Taurus Mountains. Though they live as subject citizens of many Asian countries,
the Kurds are considered as encroachers and alien to all such countries. Their
racial origin is obscure, and their national identity is ambiguous, making their
origin questionable. Perhaps, their conversion to Islam has led to their racial
identity being fused with converts of other races, and in the course of time,
have alienated themselves from part of their lost past.

Historically, the Kurds have never been mentioned as native inhabitants of
Mesopotamia. They do not speak the Syriac language and have no tangible
landmarks to relate to their name in Mesopotamia. Kurds are no more than an
amalgam of nomadic tribes that grazed their goats and sheep in the Zagros-Taurus
Region. Though they have occupied the region for centuries – firmly since the
12th AD, the Kurds have never achieved a nation-state status. As previously
mentioned, the Kurds are no more than sequesters. Kurds are scattered all over
the Middle East. Some countries describe them as encroachers and others as
brigands.

Their population is estimated at more than 15 million. They are scattered in all
directions, from Iran to Azerbaijan and Armenia, including small communities in
several south, southeast and southwest Asian countries, and Europe. They are
squatters. They have inhabited the upland region beyond Assyria Proper for
centuries. Yet the origin of their obscure roots relates closer to the South
Asian and Stan-prefixed countries than anywhere else. Since the Islamic
conquests in the 7th century AD, the Kurds have infiltrated most of their
neighbouring countries. Their roots have since taken firm hold in the chain of
mountains of the Taurus-Zagros Crescent, as the centre link of their nomadic
home.

Their language is an amalgam of Farsi (Persian) and Pashto (a native language of
Afghanistan), plus a blend of foreign words, except Aramaic. They do not have a
script of their own. They use the script of their neighbouring countries, Arabic
and Latin, but not the Syriac script, which dates from 50AD. The Kurds are alien
to the Aramaic language and to Assyria itself. The Kurds do not relate to
Assyria, geographically, culturally or politically. Yet, only over the last 80
years or so, they arrogate the Ninveh, Arba-Eilu and Arrapkha Region, the
birthplace of Assyria.

The Kurds are engrossed in removing the name “Assyria” and replacing it with the
name “Kurdi-stan” – the land of the Kurd. This name change is being carried out,
with tact and vigour, in collusion with Iraq and the neighbouring Islamic
countries of Iran, Turkey and Syria. The Islamisation process of Mesopotamia and
name change had actually begun centuries earlier - since the Arab conquests of
the Middle East in 7th century AD. In subsequence, in 11th century AD, the
invading forces of the Seljuk Turks swept the whole region, and followed in the
12th century AD by the Mongol, all the way to Iran and beyond.

Since the eleventh century AD, the Kurds, who had converted to Islam to escape
the Turkish Seljuk sword, joined hands with the Mongol invaders in consolidating
their hold on territories that principally belonged to the native Assyrians.
Subsequent Turk invading forces supported the Moslem Kurds. They helped the
Kurds seize the region of northwestern Zagros Mountains and part of northwestern
Mesopotamia. The Kurds staked claim over the whole region and named it
Kurdistan, as the Ottomans did to Eastern Europe and named it the Balkans. In
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a renewed effort by the Turks, later
supported by Iraqi Arab regimes, led to unrestrained encouragement of the Kurds
to continue to occupy Assyrian lands.

Iraq’s policy of its Arab, Kurd and Turkuman majority has always favoured an
Islamic style governance system. They traditionally ignore the basic rights of
the original native dwellers of the country. Since creation of the Kingdom of
Iraq in 1921, its successive rulers have deliberately placed the Mosul Vilayet
under loose Kurdish control. Its objective is to drive off the Christian
Assyrians from their towns and villages, and to give the region a purely Kurdish
image, under the manufactured name of Kurdistan, a name completely unrelated to
the region on Northern Iraq. Iraq’s intent is to put an end to Assyrian claim to
Ninveh, to deny their existence in their traditional homeland of northern
Mesopotamia (Iraq), for just being Christian.

Islam is bent on annulling the name “Assyria” from Iraq. By accepting and
including the name “Kurdistan” in the forthcoming Iraqi constitution, the name
becomes legitimate. It thus stamps final official approval to the crimes
committed against the Assyrians and legitimises Kurdish occupation of Assyrian
lands. It would eliminate the name Assyria and replace it with “Kurdistan”. Its
main objective is to cut it off from the indigenous Assyrians. The neighbouring
countries would most gladly support such a sly move. Their aim is to annex the
historical land of Assyria to the outpost Kurdish Region. Ultimately, Kurdistan
will proclaim full independence. It will ally itself with the neighbouring
states and become an extension of the Islamic States of the Abode of Peace, part
of the ever-expanding Islamic Umma Nation. Thus, the name “Assyria” will
constitutionally be eliminated from existence, declaring the whole Middle
Eastern region Islamic.

The Kurds have recently put a proposal to the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC)
[Article Three, Sections (a) and (b)] to recognize the name Kurdistan and its
government as the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. The proposed Region
includes the territories that were beyond the previous 36° parallel green line,
from the governorates of Ninveh, Duhok, Erbil, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniah and Diyala.
The said six additional cities are historically Assyrian property. The proposal
is devious. It is unconstitutional and acrimonious. The Assyrians reject it. The
world body of nations should likewise reject it.

The world body of the United Nations is called upon to look into the plight of
the Assyrian native inhabitants of northern Iraq. If the name of the game is
religion, then the displaced Assyrians, being Christians, need to be returned to
their part of the world of Assyria of northern Iraq, and be granted equal rights
as those of the Moslem Kurds, within their own delineated area. Why is it that
the world recognizes the Kurds as a race and not the Assyrians? The Assyrians
have historical rights to their traditional land Ninveh, Arbil and Kirkuk.

Assyrians have all the prerequisites that qualify them to return to their home.
They are the indigenous and original inhabitants of northern Iraq. Assyria of
northern Mesopotamia belongs to the Assyrian nation. Its people have since the
early 20th century been banished and live in diaspora. If the UN and the
international community feel for the Kurds, they should similarly feel for the
aggrieved Assyrian nation and treat them on equal terms.

Kurds that abandon their nomadic lifestyle, move into urban areas, with the firm
intention of squatting, to occupy Assyrian land illegally. They have been doing
so for generations. They accept menial jobs and low wages, just to stay put.
They are used as cheap labour. In the case of the current Iraqi Islamic
coalition front (known by the official name of The Iraqi Governing Council), it
is scheming to legalize the Kurd’s usurpation of Assyrian land and give it a
legal status, under the dodgy name “Kurdistan”. Putting it mildly, it is in
breach of the international law and betrayal of the Assyrian small nation that
has put his trust in the hands of the world body of nations.

The Islamic movement, in an upsurge, is moving forward to creating a new Islamic
state under the name "Kurdistan", to meet its hidden agenda of Islamising the
whole of the Middle East. Lebanon will be the next target. Israel will be the
last ground for Islam’s testing of its true metal to proving that they had been
right all along. Time will tell. Yet, it is hoped that it will not come to that,
and that reason, in the end, would prevail.

Claims of the nomadic Kurds to the Ninveh, Arba-Eilu and Arrapkha region, as
being Kurdish, is farcical and nonsense. Such transgression will be legally
challenged at the United Nations Organization, the International Court of
Justice at The Hague and through other legal means. The Kurds have plagued the
East with their continuous intrusion and disrespect for other peoples’ property.
Historically, the three Assyrian cities, currently situated within the political
boundary of the State of Iraq, do not relate to Kurdistan. Northern Iraq,
previously known as Vilayet Mosul, under the Ottoman rule, is historically
Assyrian. It has always been part and parcel of Assyria. It is the heartland of
Assyria. Assyrians still live there. It is their home - their last bastion.